UW Pain Medicine Patient Care:
Pain Medicine Providers

Jane C. Ballantyne, MD

Professor, Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

jcb12@uw.edu

Primary Location: UW Medical Center — Roosevelt

Areas of Expertise: Outcomes assessment, Acute pain, Chronic opioid therapy and adaptations, Systematic reviews and meta-analysis.

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Michael N. Brown, MD

Senior Pain Fellow, Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

brown9@uw.edu

Primary Location: UW Medical Center, Roosevelt

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David J. Tauben, MD

Clinical Associate Professor & Interim Chief (Pain Medicine)
Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine;
Director of Medical Student Education in Pain Medicine

tauben@u.washington.edu

Primary Location: UW Medical Center

"Care and treat all patients as I would expect for myself."

Expertise: Diagnosis, education, and medical management of acute and chronic pain in specialty and primary care.

Clinical interests: Consultative and Primary care management of acute and chronic pain primary care internal medicine.

Personal interests: Family, friends, skiing, mountain biking, art, theater, non-fiction reading, political and philosophical discussion.

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Hilda M. Campbell, PhD

Psychologist & Clinical Instructor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

hilda.campbell@seattlechildrens.org

Primary Location: Seattle Children's Hospital

Areas of Expertise: Psychological assessment, cognitive behavioral interventions and relaxation training in children and adolescents.

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Tara Chen, PharmD

Clinical Pharmacist, UWMC Pharmacy/SCCA

tlchen@u.washington.edu

Primary Location: Seattle Cancer Care Alliance

Areas of Expertise: Cancer pain.

Michael J. Collins, MB BS

Acting Instructor, Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

michael.collins@seattlechildrens.org

Primary Location: Seattle Children's Hospital

Areas of Expertise: Pediatric pain management.

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Timothy C. Dawson, MD

Clinical Associate Professor & Director (Pain Med.)
Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine, VAPSHCS

Mario DePinto, MD

Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

mdepinto@uw.edu

Primary Location: Harborview Medical Center

Areas of Expertise: Interventional pain management, Medical pain Management, Hospital/Inpatient pain management.

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W. Thomas Edwards, PhD, MD

Professor, Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine
Interim Director, Pain Fellowship Program

paindoc@uw.edu

Primary Location: Harborview Medical Center

Areas of Expertise: Interventional pain management, Medical pain Management, Hospital/Inpatient pain management.

Clinical Interests: Effects of early interventions for pain or outcome in trauma patients, new pain management systems, total quality improvement in pain management.

Personal Interests: Music, singing, philosophy, Benedictine spirituality.

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Inge Falk van Rooyen, MB ChB, FRCA

Associate Professor, Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

inge.falk_van_rooyen@seattlechildrens.org

Primary Location: Seattle Children's Hospital

Areas of Expertise: Acute postoperative pain management, Assessing pain in the neonate and non-verbal child, Palliative care pain management.

Biographical Statement It is with much enthusiasm that I have had the opportunity to work on the Pain team and within the General OR for the dept of anesthesiology and Pain medicine. I have a particular love for the patients on the SCCA, their families and the staff. Within the OR I enjoy faster pace cases and the consideration for how to best achieve a comparatively Day surgery feel, for our families.

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Dermot R. Fitzgibbon, MBBCh

Professor, Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

dermot@uw.edu

Primary Location: UW Medical Center

Areas of Expertise: Interventional pain management, Medical pain management, Hospital/Inpatient pain management.

Professional Interests: Perioperative pain management, cancer pain management and anesthesiology with a special interest in regional anesthesia.

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Michael Gofeld, MD

Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine;
Director of Clinical Operations, Center for Pain Relief

gofeld@uw.edu

Primary Location: UW Medical Center

Teaching Interests: Interventional pain management.

Clinical Interests: Cancer pain and pain among cancer survivors, nerve injury pain, neuromodulation (implantation of nerve/spinal cord stimulators), degenerative disc disease and other spinal disorders, and neuromodulation of chronic headaches.

Research Interests: Neuromodulation, ultrasound-guided techniques, treatment of degenerative disc disease, outcome studies and neurophysiology.

Personal Interests: Bicycling, hiking, sailing and Latin American and ballroom dancing.

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Eliza Groothuis, PharmD

Oncology Pharmacist, UWMC Pharmacy/SCCA

grooth@u.washington.edu

Primary Location: Seattle Cancer Care Alliance

Areas of Expertise: Cancer pain.

Jennifer E. Jacky, ARNP

Nurse Practitioner

jjacky@seattlecca.org

Primary Location: Seattle Cancer Care Alliance

Areas of Expertise: Cancer pain.

Nathalia Jimenez, MD, MPH

Acting Assistant Professor,
Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

nathalia.jimenez@seattlechildrens.org

Primary Location: Seattle Children's Hospital

Areas of Expertise: Pain research, Pediatric pain management, Inpatient pain management.

Professional Interests: Pain perception and pain treatment in minority populations, epidermiology and public health, Transcranial doppler and craniosynostosis.

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Eva M. Juel-Medina, ARNP, MSN

Nurse Practitioner

Primary Location: Seattle Children's Hospital

Areas of Expertise: Pediatric pain management.

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Kathleen L. Larkin, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor,
Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

katie.larkin@seattlechildrens.org

Primary Location: Seattle Children's Hospital

Areas of Expertise: Pediatric pain management, Complementary and integrative medicine.

Field of Interest: Pediatric regional anesthesia, pain management and acupuncture, palliative care.

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Amy Lewandowski, MD

Acting Assistant Professor,
Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

amy.lewandowski@seattlechildrens.org

Primary Location: Seattle Children's Hospital

Areas of Expertise: Pediatric pain management.

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Anne M. Lynn, MD

Professor, Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine
Adjunct Professor, Pediatrics

anne.lynn@seattlechildrens.org

Primary Location: Seattle Children's Hospital

Areas of Expertise: Pharmacology in infants, acupuncture in children.

Professional Interests: Research in pain medication kinetics in infants - morphine, ketorolac. Recent addition of acupuncture as adjunct pain management modality.

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Helen Marshall, PharmD

Clinical Pharmacist, UWMC Pharmacy/SCCA

helenm@u.washington.edu

Primary Location: Seattle Cancer Care Alliance

Areas of Expertise: Cancer pain.

Laura Miars, PharmD

Clinical Pharmacist, UWMC Pharmacy/SCCA

lmiars@u.washington.edu

Primary Location: Seattle Cancer Care Alliance

Areas of Expertise: Cancer pain.

Roy Mock, PharmD

Clinical Pharmacist, UWMC Pharmacy/SCCA

roymock@u.washington.edu

Primary Location: Seattle Cancer Care Alliance

Areas of Expertise: Cancer pain.

Delia R. Nickolaus, ARNP

Nurse Practitioner

Primary Location: Seattle Children's Hospital

Areas of Expertise: Pediatric pain management.

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Isuta Nishio, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

nishioi@uw.edu

Primary Location: VA Puget Sound HCS

Areas of Expertise: Interventional pain management.

Deanna M. O�Donnell, ARNP

Nurse Practitioner

deandoc@uw.edu

Primary Location: Seattle Cancer Care Alliance

Areas of Expertise: Cancer pain.

Nikki Oerting, RN

Registered Nurse

Primary Location: Seattle Children's Hospital

Areas of Expertise: Chronic Pain management.

Tonya M. Palermo, PhD

Professor, Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

tonya.palermo@seattlechildrens.org

Primary Location: Seattle Children's Hospital

Areas of Expertise: Pediatric Pain research.

Clinical Interests: Pediatric chronic and recurrent pain, sleep disorders in children Psychological treatment of pediatric chronic pain, use of innovative technology to deliver treatment, sleep-wake disturbances.

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Lisa Peters, RN, MN

Registered Nurse

Primary Location: Seattle Children's Hospital

Areas of Expertise: Chronic Pain management.

Sally E. Rampersad, MB, DCH, FRCA

Associate Professor,
Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

sally.rampersad@seattlechildrens.org

Primary Location: Seattle Children's Hospital

Areas of Expertise: Inpatient pediatric pain management, Quality Improvement.

Professional Interests: Quality improvement, crew resource management and human factors/team training, PALS instructor.

Personal Interests: Parenting, skiing and running the occasional half marathon!

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Suzanne E. Rapp, MD

Clinical Associate Professor,
Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

serapp@u.washington.edu

Primary Location: UW Medical Center

Areas of Expertise: Myofascial pain treatment, Medical management of pain.

Biographical Statement: Dr. Rapp has been a pain management specialist at the UWMC for 24 years. Her current clinical interest is in myofascial pain. Opioid policy and outcome are current research interests.

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James P. Robinson, MD

Clinical Associate Professor,
Rehabilitation Medicine

jimrob@u.washington.edu

Primary Location: UW Medical Center

Areas of Expertise: Rehabilitation in pain management, Medical management of pain, Fibromyalgia research.

Clinical interests: Spine disorders and fibromyalgia.

Research interests: Rehabilitative treatment of fibromyalgia and decision-making among patients on chronic opioid therapy.

Teaching interests: The importance of a rehabilitative approach to chronic pain patients.

Personal interests: Bicycling and guitars.

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Nirupa Shah, MBChB, FCP, MBA

Joint Acting Instructor, Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine;
Joint Acting Instructor, Neurology

nirupa@uw.edu

Primary Location: UW Medical Center

Areas of Expertise: Diagnosis and medical management of pain, Neurophysiological testing, Botox injections, Neuromodulation of pain.

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Irakli Soulakvelidze, MD

Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

irakli@uw.edu

Primary Location: UW Medical Center

Areas of Expertise: Interventional pain management, Medical management of pain.

Teaching Interests: Teaching residents and fellows the theory and practice of pain medicine, as well as developing clinical research collaborations with them to answer new clinical questions.

Clinical Interests: Chronic regional pain syndrome, neuropathic pain and spinal pain.

Research Interests: To develop a standardized clinical pathway for optimal management of chronic regional pain syndrome. To help improve management of chronic pain in the primary care setting.

Personal Interests: Spending time with family and friends, reading, traveling and sports.

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Agnes Stogicza, MD

Acting Assistant Professor
Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

stogi@uw.edu

Primary Location: HMC

Areas of Expertise: Interventional pain management, Medical management of pain.

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Joe Stuckey, MS, CRC

Rehabilitation Counselor, Rehabilitation Medicine

jstuckey@u.washington.edu

Primary Location: UW Medical Center

Areas of Expertise: Vocational rehabilitation counseling, Cognitive behavioral pain management counseling, Adjustment to disability counseling.

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Mark Daniel Sullivan, MD

Professor, Psychiatry; Adjunct Professor, Bioethics and Humanities

sullimar@u.washington.edu

Primary Location: UW Medical Center

Areas of Expertise: Psychiatric management of the chronic pain patient.

Clinical interests: Outpatient treatment of chronic illness including chronic pain, heart disease, diabetes and depression. Palliative care for seriously ill patients who are not yet at the end of their lives.

Research interests: He is interested in expanding the ways in which patients can participate in their chronic illness care and the interaction of mental and physical health in chronic illness. He studies the determinants of quality of life in chronic illness and the cost-effectiveness of care.

Teaching interests: Bioethics, chronic pain, depression in chronic illness and medical mimics of psychiatric disorders.

Personal interests: Bicycling to work, running, reading and swimming. He enjoys playing old-time string band music with his family.

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Anna Sutherland, PharmD

Oncology Pharmacist, UWMC Pharmacy/SCCA

asutherl@seattlecca.org

Primary Location: Seattle Cancer Care Alliance

Areas of Expertise: Cancer pain.

David J. Tauben, MD

Clinical Associate Professor,
Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine;
Director of Medical Student Education in Pain Medicine

tauben@u.washington.edu

Primary Location: UW Medical Center

"Care and treat all patients as I would expect for myself."

Areas of Expertise: Medication management of chronic pain, Medical student pain medicine education, Pain management in Primary Care Practice.

Expertise: Diagnosis, education, and medical management of acute and chronic pain in specialty and primary care.

Clinical interests: Consultative and Primary care management of acute and chronic pain primary care internal medicine.

Personal interests: Family, friends, skiing, mountain biking, art, theater, non-fiction reading, political and philosophical discussion.

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Becca Taylor, RN

Nurse Practitioner

Primary Location: Seattle Cancer Care Alliance

Areas of Expertise: Collaborative pain treatment, Medical home model.

Gregory W. Terman, MD, PhD

Professor, Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine;
Professor, Graduate Program in Neurobiology & Behavior

gwt@u.washington.edu

Primary Location: UW Medical Center

Areas of Expertise: Pain research, Interventional pain management, Obstetric anesthesiology, OR anesthesiology UWMC.

Research Interests: For the last 30 years I have been interested in the synaptic plasticity of the central nervous system as a result of repeated or prolonged nociception and/or repeated or prolonged pain relieving drugs. In the last few years, my research has focused on the mechanisms and neurochemistry of of opiate tolerance, potential therapeutics to help opiate tolerant patients, and studies to minimize the life-threatening risk of opiates in analgesic tolerant patients.

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Judith A. Turner, PhD

Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

jturner@u.washington.edu

Primary Location: UW Medical Center

Areas of Expertise: Psychological assessment of the patient with chronic pain.

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Holly O. Venugopal, PA-C

Teaching Associate, Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

hollyv@uw.edu

Primary Location: UW Medical Center

Areas of Expertise: Hospital pain medicine.

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Gary A. Walco, PhD

Professor, Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine
Adjunct Professor, Pediatrics & Psychiatry
Director of Pain Medicine, SCH

gary.walco@seattlechildrens.org

Primary Location: Seattle Children's Hospital

Areas of Expertise: Pediatric pain management.

Professional Interests: A major professional focus has been advocacy for better pain management for children. The socpe of these efforts conitnues to broaden, including national and international efforts.

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Tiffany T. Zhang, PA-C, PhD

Teaching Associate, Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine

tiffzh@uw.edu

Primary Location: UW Medical Center

Areas of Expertise: Medical management of pain, Pumps, stimulators, peripheral nerve blocks and trigger point injection.

Clinical Interests: Chronic pain management.

Research Interests: Chronic pain therapy-related research.

Teaching Interests: Preceptorship of physician assistant students.

Personal Interests: Reading, tennis, travel and stamp collecting.

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